Eudaimonia Berkeley Quotes & Sayings

But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it. — Rob Sheffield

The basic conflict between men and women, sexually, is that men are like firemen. To men, sex is an emergency, and no matter what we're doing we can be ready in two minutes. Women, on the other hand, are like fire. They're very exciting, but the conditions have to be exactly right for it to occur. — Jerry Seinfeld

I'm not so much a dragon slayer, more a dragon annoyer
I'm a dragon irritater. — Craig Ferguson

Badly done, Emma! — Jane Austen

This, in my judgment, is the highest philosophy: First, do not regret having lost yesterday; second, do not fear that you will lose tomorrow; third, enjoy today. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Dependence, she knew, and the longing for more than what you had, led to unhappiness and discontent. — Nora Roberts

To stay on the map you've got to keep showing up. — Peter Gallagher

Weaponry, trips to the sun country, tiny bathing suits, For Christmas. "Nothing says Peace on Earth like guns and string bikinis. — Lisa Jackson

There's going to be a flood of opportunities right now but I don't think I could really talk about them. — Chris Daughtry

The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle. — Tariq Ramadan

In the workshop where I started to write fiction, you had to read your work in public. Most times, you read in a bar or coffeehouse where you'd be competing with the roar of the espresso machine. Or the football game on television. Music and drunk people talking. Against all this noise and distraction, only the most shocking, most physical, dark and funny stories got heard. Our test audience would never sit still for Barn-Raising Club. — Chuck Palahniuk

I'm comfortable with anything after the fact. — George Saunders

I remember looking through magazines or watching movies even just a couple of years ago and being like, 'I really want to be part of that,' but not realizing what that was. — Leighton Meester

there would always be stories that refused to stay bound inside books. — Ransom Riggs